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At the heart of the Blue Box Program is the understanding that the groups that are most critical to the program’s success need to be actively involved in the decision-making process. During the initial development of the Blue Box Program Plan, Stewardship Ontario was required to conduct three separate consultations—with affected businesses and industry sectors, with Ontario municipalities and with the public. Stewardship Ontario consults regularly on issues ranging from annual changes to Rules and steward fees, to governance and market development.

Case Studies

Discover how a passion for green chemistry in the labs at Queen’s University could become a marketable environmental technology. Switchable Solutions has developed a solvent system with the potential to remove food contaminants from plastics and extract polystyrene for reuse as a valuable raw material.Read More
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Named one of the country’s most innovative companies, GreenMantra Technologies converts plastic household packaging into valuable commodities. Find out how Stewardship Ontario is helping shape this emerging green recycling technology. Read More

EFS-plastics Inc. makes resin pellets for new consumer products from used margarine containers, yogurt cups, caps, lids and plastic films, including shopping, frozen vegetable and bread bags. With the help of Stewardship Ontario, the Listowel company has expanded its recycling and reprocessing operations.Read More

Approximately 395 households in the City of Burlington and 519 homes in the County of Brant have taken part in a three-month pilot recycling program to collect plastic-laminated paper beverage cups in their Blue Boxes. Find out how Stewardship Ontario helped make this happen.Read More

A Sarnia company is sorting and converting previously unrecyclable rigid plastics into raw materials for new products. Thanks largely to their process, 30 per cent more plastic was recovered in Ontario in 2012 than 2008. It has the potential to transform municipal recycling around the world.Read More
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With more mixed rigid plastics and film in the Blue Box, Stewardship Ontario researched innovative recycling processes and new markets for the materials. Ontario’s Blue Box Stewards invested in new processing technology, and what followed led to a range of recycled household products at Canadian Tire. Read More
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